Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner Essay

“Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner” For my Book report I decided to do it on Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? Which was written by Katrine Marcal. In Katrine Marcals book who cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner was mostly based on the economics of society. It provides many examples of how society works and how society should work. I felt that the book focused a lot about the role women play in economics. It provides much evidence to support Marcal reasoning to why women play a major role and at the end of the book a person can come to an answer to the title of the book “Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner”. “Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner” reminded me of many things that we talked in our Sociology class. The book brought in topics for example the color of people to the gender all the way to how it all plays a role in the economy. In her book Marcal brings up a great point that relates back to sociology class about how a person’s color of skin can play a big role not just in how much a person of color is paid but in how it can affect the economy. On …show more content…
People feel that women cannot do the job a male can do due to child birth and other feminine factors. I feel that women have the biggest impact on the economy and how it can flourish and women are not thanked enough for their part. Marcal states on page 16 , " Wives , mothers or sisters had to spend hour after hour, day after day minding children , cleaning the house, cooking the food, washing the clothes drying tears and squabbling with the neighbors”. This fits into what we talked about in our sociology class about how people don’t count what women do at work. If it wasn’t for women taking care of the children, cleaning the house or much more the man would not have been able to go to work where he earns money. That money would have not been possible if it wasn’t for the women who do everything at home to give the man the opportunity to go and work. The key player in the economy is